D'Antonio and Montanari Duo to perform at Albany Museum of Art - November 9, 2014 at 4:00 pm
An Italian music duo will perform Sunday afternoon in the second concert of the Symphony @ the Museum series. ##The D'Antonio and Montanari Duo, a guitar and flute duo, will perform a program of a variety works by composers Carl Nielsen, Terry Riley, Astor Piazzola, Toru Takemitsu and others at the Albany Museum of Art, 311 Meadowlark Drive. Part...
According to Gordon: The late John DeSio a cornerstone of Staten Island football
No, Charlie Margiotta didn't invent touch-tackle football. Though, understandably, some folks around here might have thought that the case. Truth is the longtime master of the Staten Island Touch Tackle League didn't even create the SITTL. "John DeSio was the guy," the now 78-year-old Margiotta was saying the other day. "In the b...
Italian American Museum presents "Carnevale di Venezia"
You are cordially invited to attend a lecture and DVD based photo presentation on the centuries-old tradition of Carnevale by acclaimed photographer Anita Sanseverino at the Italian American Museum this Thursday, February 12th. Authentic Venetian carnival masks from Anita's own collection will be on display as well. Carnival masks are the...
Bell, East Harlem historian, featured at Vito Marcantonio Forum
The Vito Marcantonio Forum held another interesting event on Sat., Feb. 28 at the New York Public Library located at 10 Jersey Street in New York City. The VMF is a historical, cultural, and educational organization that brings together people from a wide variety of backgrounds, dedicated to disseminating and sharing knowledge of the life...
Il ministro Pier Carlo Padoan ospite d'onore al gala dei 40 anni del Gei: "Siate fiduciosi, l'economia cresce, scommette sull'Italia"
di Riccardo Chioni Gran Gala al Plaza Hotel mercoledì sera in occasione della celebrazione dei 40 anni di attività del Gruppo Esponenti Italiani di New York, alla presenza di numerose personalità ed autorità con ospite d'onore il ministro dell'Economia e delle Finanze Pier Carlo Padoan. Tra gli ospiti il console generale Natalia Quintaval...
IN SCENA! Italian Theater Festival: OPENING NIGHT Double-Bill
MAY 04, 2015 - 06:00 PMCasa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011 Opening Night of the 2015 IN SCENA! Italian Theater Festival FREE and open to the general public 6:00pm Homage to Pasolini. A staged reading directed by Marco Calvani.A journey into Pasolini's writing on the 40th anniversary of his death...
Italian family roots chronicled
The year was 1915, a year after the Great War started. Michael Salamone's great-grandmother Marie LaMonica left Italy as a child with her family and boarded a ship to get to America. The ship was crowded and infested with pests. When she arrived at Ellis Island, she fell ill with a high fever. Great-Grandma Marie was only a year old at th...
The Poetry of Giovanni Meli
You are cordially invited to attend a special program at the Italian American Museum this Friday evening, September 4th. Professor Gaetano Cipolla will present "The Poetry of Giovanni Meli", volume XIV of the successful series "Pueti d'Arba Sicula/Poets of Arba Sicula." The goal of the series is to present the best poetry written in Sicili...
Giuseppe Rossi: “The one that got away” still comes home for Christmas
By Charles Boehm US Soccer Players - Giuseppe Rossi is back in the USA, and even on holiday, he manages to find the net. It's a warm, rainy night just before Christmas at the Chelsea Piers sports complex on the east bank of the Hudson River. The New Jersey native has been calmly watching rec-level soccer and posing for photos for near...
Lupinacci attends presentation on combating discrimination in Higher Education
Assemblyman Chad A. Lupinacci (R, C, I – South Huntington) attended a February 24 forum dedicated to combating discrimination within the higher education system. Speakers at the forum, which was sponsored by the New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators, of which he is a member, discussed the discrimination Italian immigrants faced...
Marcia Hafif: The Art of Distillation "The Italian Paintings, 1961 – 1969"
Marcia Hafif's mostly two-color paintings now on view in Chelsea were created in Rome, and are being shown for the first time in the United States after thirty-seven years in storage. The exhibition reveals the paradox of a sensibility both in formation and fully formed. Trains of thought become visible in the room through Hafif's open and...
School Superintendent, Local Police to Be Honored at Giuseppe Garibaldi Lodge Scholarship Dinner
The Giuseppe Garibaldi Lodge will be honoring Dr. Walter R. Moran III, Ed.D., Superintendent of Eastchester Schools, as Man of the Year at its 12th annual Scholarship Dinner. Also honored will be Alexandria Tucci as Miss Columbus—2016 and the local Police Departments of Bronxville, Tuckahoe and Eastchester. The 12th annual dinner will...